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Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index To Ensure Respect For Users’ Digital Rights
Investors urge tech companies to use Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index to ensure respect for users digital rights.
Investor Update: Lessons From 2018’s Crash Course on Digital Rights
Our 2018 Investor Update reviews key developments of the past year and their relationship to the RDR Index findings and methodology.
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Tell Congress
Facebook is one of the least transparent social media companies when it comes to personal data and privacy issues.
Facebook has been too casual about data for too long
One lesson is that transparency with the public about all policies affecting users’ rights to privacy & expression is essential.
We need to wake up to the existential threat surveillance capitalism poses to democracy
Privacy, and individual control over one’s data and content, must be baked into the design of the platforms & services people depend upon.
Facebook Scrutinized For Its Data Sharing With Cambridge Analytica
Rebecca MacKinnon was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about the misuse of Facebook data by third parties.
We are in a crisis over trust in government, business and online with no fix in sight
It is unacceptable for algorithms and scoring mechanisms to be opaque and unaccountable to scrutiny.